Hafrakex

Recipe for a sheet of oatmeal cookies, approx. 25 – 30 pieces

Ingredients

100 g melt-in-the-mouth oat flakes

70 g flour

50 g sugar

1 tsp baking powder

1 pinch of salt

50 g margarine

2 – 4 Tbsp milk

Preparation

In a bowl, mix the oat flakes with the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add the margarine in small flakes and knead everything vigorously, adding the milk a spoonful at a time until a smooth dough is formed.

Roll out the dough in smaller portions between two layers of baking paper and traditionally cut out the cookies with a round cookie cutter.

Bake the cookies in a preheated oven at 400 °F (200 °C) on the middle rack for about 8 to 10 minutes until the cookies are light brown.

Allow to cool and then serve the biscuits traditionally spread with salted butter.

Annotation:

For a normal Icelandic housewife, a sheet of oatmeal cookies is of course far too small a quantity to start baking with. At least three to four times the amount is baked - but sometimes a smaller portion is enough.

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